[Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of livingpeople

[Pharos]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Sue Gardner <susanpgardner at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that the turnout was impressive, and I was also impressed that many of the wealthier chapters helped to fund travel for the less-wealthy.
>
> I was also amazed by the volunteer devs, many of whom travelled long distances on their own dime (e.g., Aude, and many others).  I've spoken with Brion, and if it would help the devs to have some form of subsidy for their travel, or some form of other support, the Wikimedia Foundation would be happy to help next year.

I would like to support this too.  Devs like Aude can be be a real
asset in jumpstarting chapters activities as well, as she has shown
with her great organizing work in Washington DC.

Thanks,
Pharos

> It was all really great :-)
> Sue
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:12:11
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List<foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board statement regarding biographies of living
>        people
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>
> 2009/4/30 Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com>:
>> Thomas,
>>
>>> I believe there were about 50 chapters people about about 100 devs.
>>> I'm not sure why the mean travel distance would be lower if you
>>> include everyone - there were people from all around the world there,
>>> many having travelled further than the average board member.
>>
>>
>> Actually, I'd be happy if you were right (and you probably are!) - it
>> shows, that lots of people had the motivation to come to this
>> "excursion".
>
> Every single chapter was represented by at least one person - I was
> extremely impressed by that.
>
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